Kolkata’s Metro Railway has announced that the last train on the Green Line will run an hour earlier on November 9 to allow testing of the Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) system, a crucial step toward ensuring safer and smoother ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphAn assistant engineer of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) who earned a little over ₹1 lakh a month had allegedly amassed wealth and assets worth nearly ₹6 crore. The state police’s anti-corruption branch arrested Partha Chongdar on Friday under ...
9 November 2025 TelegraphA green diary with a purported list of financial transactions has been found in the possession of Akash Das, the prime accused in the match-fixing scandal at the Calcutta Football League, police sources said. Sources said investigators have begun ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphAn exhibition of epigraphs dating as far back as 5,000 years began at the Indian Museum on Friday.Otherwise kept in reserve, they have been displayed for a conference. Only a fraction of the museum’s collections are on public display, ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphSatyajit Ray had cast Amjad Khan on the strength of his performance in Sholay. The legendary filmmaker, in a 1983 interview, had said that he had seen the film in Bombay in the first week of its release.“Very able, ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphThe school education department announced on Friday the transfer of 23,145 primary school teachers from government-aided primary schools, as the existing vacancies in teacher positions required a “rationalisation process”.The order issued by the department states that the rationalisation will ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphMayor Firhad Hakim on Friday questioned how an engineer of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) who had initiated proceedings against an illegal structure later regularised the same structure after a court asked the KMC to conduct another hearing.Hakim said ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphA man was arrested for trying to enter the female medicine ward at SSKM Hospital after the visiting hours on Thursday.This incident once again lays bare the security lapses in the state’s premier government-run hospital, where a minor girl ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphThe first hint of winter will be felt after sundown from the weekend, the Met office has said.The minimum temperature rose on Friday because of increased moisture incursion between Thursday night and Friday morning. Dry northerly and northwesterly winds ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphThe Election Commission has placed the onus of proof on the citizen, conflating the processes of updating the voter list and verifying citizenship validity, resulting in fear and anxiety stemming from an abject lack of communication.Two senior bureaucrats, who ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta High Court on Friday instructed police not to take any coercive action against customs officer Pradeep Kumar till November 20. Kumar was attacked inside his house in Sonarpur, but later he was accused of molesting a woman in ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphJustice Amrita Sinha of Calcutta High Court on Friday issued an interim order saying that the fate of the tests conducted to appoint teachers for Classes IX and X and XI and XII in government-aided schools would depend on ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) published the results of the selection tests to shortlist candidates for teaching jobs at the higher secondary level late on Friday. The commission said in a press release: “The results of the written examinations ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphAmid the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls in West Bengal, sex workers in Kolkata's Sonagachi area, one of the largest red light districts in Asia, held a preliminary meeting among themselves to know what official documents they possess to ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphThere was a time when Dalia Biswas would go for a wash and change her clothes if she was touched by a dog. But now that she is the “grandmother” of a Spitz, she has no qualms petting her, ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphDomestic cats have been living alongside humans for an estimated 10,000 years, first as rodent control and then as the couch-warmers we know and love. A far cry from the lone predator lifestyle of their ancestors, today millions of ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphPolice returned the items that had been seized from Hindol Mazumdar, a Jadavpur University (JU) alumnus, on Wednesday. He was arrested at the Delhi airport in August after arriving from Spain, facing allegations of plotting to attack education minister ...
8 November 2025 TelegraphIf your name is there in the 2025 electoral rolls, the booth level officer (BLO), accompanied in most cases by booth level agents (BLA) of political parties, will visit you at home.You will be handed two enumeration forms, which ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphAt least 40 passengers were injured when a passenger bus travelling from Berachampa to Karunamoyee in the Kolkata suburb of Bidhannagar fell into a canal in Rajarhat on Friday morning. Panic-stricken passengers screamed for help and local residents rushed ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphKids of AJ Block formed a band and presented music for the goddess at AJ Block on Saptami in a show called Ailo Uma Barite.The newly-formed musical band, Ho Jo Bo Ro Lo, comprised 10 members — all below ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphSpectrum, the cultural fiesta by BL Block committee youth wing, hosted a variety of cultural and sporting events over the Kali puja weekend.The opening ceremony was followed by a talent hunt, divided into three age categories, and events like ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphBesides a slew of cultural programmes for Kali puja, Maitri Sangha had organised a show to felicitate institutions that have crossed the 100-year milestone and stood the test of time. The felicitation took place during the opening of the ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphA game of wit and knowledge commenced at BL Park on Dashami as residents gathered to take part in Chaturanga, the 36th edition of their annual quiz.“Chaturanga has become a legacy of BL Block now. Our seniors used to ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphThe Telegraph Salt Lake took questions from readers on the ongoing special intensive revision of rolls to a senior election official. Here are the answers.I have a voter ID card. Why do I still need to fill up the ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphThe city’s air quality has deteriorated since the barrage of firecrackers during Diwali, but did you know that fumes from paint, smoke from dhuno, and even the aerosol perfume you spray on your clothes can harm your health?These insights ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphThe Akhtar Ali Foundation Super Series Junior Tennis Tournament was held over six days last week at the Bengal Tennis Academy.The event was being resurrected after a gap of four years. “It used to be an annual affair. After ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphAround 1.15pm on Thursday, the office of a Trinamool Congress councillor in Behala had more than a dozen visitors. Most of them had queries related to the special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls. The office doubled as ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphJadavpur University has recommended that Harmanpreet Kaur, the captain of the Indian women’s cricket team who directed India to an unprecedented first World Cup triumph on Sunday, be honoured with the DLitt (Honoris Causa) during its annual convocation, traditionally ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphThe distribution of enumeration forms remains uninitiated in several condominiums within the city, three days after the special intensive revision (SIR) commenced in Bengal. Residents of the few residential complexes where the process has started said that there has ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphA specific match of the Calcutta Premier Division played in Calcutta on July 22 has caught the attention of investigators who suspect it was a “classical case” of match-fixing for gains through betting syndicates. According to sources, the match ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphThe state public works department (PWD) has set monsoon 2026 as the deadline to build a permanent bridge across the Balason in Mirik, now under construction, which will serve as a crucial link between Siliguri and Mirik.A temporary bridge, ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphA division bench of Calcutta High Court, headed by Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty, on Thursday upheld an order passed by a single bench that set aside the health department’s decision to send RG Kar doctor Aniket Mahata to a Raiganj ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out in a godown on the ground floor of a three-storeyed building a few metres away from Kolkata Police headquarters in Lalbazar on Thursday. Thick smoke enveloped the stretch on RN Mukherjee Road around 10.50am when ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphThe maker of Sholay, one of the most influential Hindi films of all time, said films from Bengal were a major influence on his craft.The curtain went up on the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival on Thursday, with Ramesh ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphA fire broke out at a godown in central Kolkata's R N Mukherjee Road on Thursday, an official said.Five fire tenders have been pressed into service to bring the blaze under control, she said.The blaze erupted around 10.45 am, ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphStudents from IIT Kharagpur have voiced their concerns about the condition of the campus roads and the risk of accidents.The students surveyed the damaged roads and posted their pictures on the Facebook page of The Scholars’ Avenue, the student-run ...
7 November 2025 TelegraphPolice have collected CCTV footage around a New Town building where jewellery workshop owner Swapan Kamilla was last seen on October 28.Kamilla, who ran a jewellery workshop in Salt Lake’s Duttabad, was found dead in New Town amid allegations ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphThe 556th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak was celebrated on Wednesday with devotees thronging gurdwaras for prayers, blessings, and a shared meal. In attendance were not only Sikhs but people from different communities and religions, blurring the lines ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphA seven-year-old child, reported missing since Tuesday afternoon, was found lifeless in a pond in Uluberia, Howrah, on Wednesday, police said.The child has been identified as Riya Pramanik, a resident of Banitala in Uluberia.The girl’s family said she went ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has created various committees to secure accreditation for its four-year BTech courses through the National Board of Accreditation (NBA).The dean of the engineering and technology faculty chairs all the committees assigned to the task. The committees have ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphSome schools have changed the evaluation pattern in exams to make it more analytical, impartial and transparent. In one school, the answer scripts are evaluated by teachers who do not teach that particular class, and in another, teachers do ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphThe tiled walkway around the water body at Rabindra Sarobar will be repaired along with the benches, an official of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA), custodian of the lake, said.Hundreds of people run, jog, or walk on the ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphThe Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) has finalised a contractor to widen a stretch of EM Bypass near Chingrighata. But there has been no progress on the demolition of some of the buildings standing in the way at the ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphPolice made their third arrest in an alleged match-fixing case and revealed foreign connections linked to the man — Sujoy Bhowmik, 37, alias Mon — who was allegedly receiving funds from abroad for fixing matches during the Calcutta Football ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphA Wednesday drive for the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in a small pocket of Behala revealed how tricky the process can be.Soumi Saha Barua, a schoolteacher and BLO for Ward 126 in Behala Bakultala, encountered multiple ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphIn the city’s Muslim-majority neighbourhoods, a quiet anxiety runs through the lanes. A misspelt name on the voter list or a small error while filling out the new enumeration form has become a source of deep fear. “Could this ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphThe special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bengal is proving to be a great social leveller.From the wealthy to the poor, the powerful to the hapless, and the educated to the unlettered, households across Calcutta are bound ...
6 November 2025 TelegraphAt least three MLAs belonging to the Trinamool Congress have alleged that they have been contacted multiple times by unknown callers seeking to extort money, citing criminal cases against them that they assert are fabricated.Two of the MLAs have ...
5 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) will publish the results of the written tests held to shortlist candidates for teaching jobs at the higher secondary level of government-aided schools on November 7, a commission official said.The final answer keys, based ...
5 November 2025 TelegraphTwo congregations of religious Sisters — the Congregation of Jesus (CJ) and the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM-Loreto) — merged on Tuesday at a ceremony held in Loyola, Spain.“The merged Congregation of Jesus, approximately 1,800 sisters worldwide, ...
5 November 2025 TelegraphA leaking water pipe inside the underground tunnel disrupted Metro services on the Blue Line for close to an hour on Tuesday. Train services were suspended between Central and Mahanayak Uttam Kumar (Tollygunge) from 3.19pm to 4pm, the Metro ...
5 November 2025 TelegraphPolice suspect the involvement of multiple international match-fixing syndicates in the Kolkata Premier League. Investigators have identified the alleged engagement of at least one Chinese national, who is said to have been crucial in the match-fixing. He reportedly outsmarted ...
5 November 2025 TelegraphA man whose decomposed body was found in a bush along a deserted stretch of New Town last Wednesday has been identified as a jewellery workshop owner who was last seen allegedly being forced into a car by a ...
5 November 2025 TelegraphAs the Mamata Banerjee-led rally protesting the SIR walked through the heart of Calcutta, Metro spoke to many who watched or participated. Here’s what some of them had to say:Indrani GhoshManages family business, from HazraAny elaborate exercise based on ...
5 November 2025 TelegraphAn exercise ostensibly meant to correct anomalies in the voters’ list is increasingly being seen as an exclusionary tactic that could disenfranchise people, indicated conversations with participants and onlookers at a rally led by chief minister Mamata Banerjee on ...
5 November 2025 TelegraphThe special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bengal may dominate headlines and political discourse, but it is not the only concern on voters’ minds.Women’s safety, scarce jobs, and dwindling incomes emerged as pressing issues among those ...
5 November 2025 TelegraphOn the first day of the special intensive revision (SIR) on Tuesday, booth-level officers (BLOs) went door-to-door in various localities distributing enumeration forms, where they encountered many confused voters who raised several questions.Metro accompanied a BLO in Garfa, under ...
5 November 2025 TelegraphA mother and daughter who were caught trying to dispose of a relative's corpse stuffed inside a trolley bag at Ahiritola Ghat were found guilty of murder and causing disappearance of evidence, and convicted for life by a Barasat ...
5 November 2025 TelegraphAs part of the implementation of the much-anticipated and politically hyper-charged SIR of electoral rolls in West Bengal, booth level officers start knocking on voters' doors from Tuesday. Here are answers to some questions that readers may have on ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphThe Publishers and Booksellers Guild is worried about accommodating a surge of visitors to the next year’s Book Fair at the Central Park in Salt Lake’s Karunamoyee, following the expansion of the East-West Metro corridor.The 49th edition of the ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphA college girl once borrowed money from her sister and decided to do a rock climbing course in Bankura’s Susunia, against her father’s approval. That was in 1970, when few women were as adventurous as Arati De. Now 74, ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphA tiff over parking a motorcycle on Abinash Chowdhury Lane in Topsia led to a scuffle between two persons and a subsequent knife attack on one of them on Sunday night, police said. Mohammad Hanif, 24, a resident of ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphThe recently appointed full-term vice-chancellor of Jadavpur University, who began his tenure on Monday, announced his intention to swiftly take action to recruit teachers, given that 35% of the teaching posts are currently vacant.According to Chiranjib Bhattacharjee, the recruitment ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphThe school service commission (SSC) issued a list on Monday that includes the names of 3,512 non-teaching staff, who, according to the Supreme Court, had acquired their jobs illegally.The SSC posted the list on its website to prevent them ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphSeveral city schools announced early dispersal on Tuesday, fearing traffic congestion because of chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s rally in the backdrop of a special intensive revision (SIR) of Bengal’s electoral rolls and concerns over possible mass deletion of genuine ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphEight years ago, when a dentist in Uluberia enrolled his five-year-old daughter in cricket coaching, neighbours mocked him — not for her talent, but her skin colour. “She is so fair. Why let her burn under the sun? This ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphA bone bank, designed to preserve bone parts and fragments for future use in transplants and other orthopaedic surgeries, is being set up at SSKM Hospital. It is likely to open within a fortnight, a hospital official said.At present, ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphTwo officials of Kidderpore Sporting Club have been arrested in connection with what police described as the tip of a match-fixing racket in the Kolkata Premier League, the top tier of the Calcutta Football League and one of the ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphA 37-year-old woman was shot at in front of her Haridevpur home early on Monday by a man who came in a vehicle and fled after firing a single bullet.The woman, a homemaker and mother of one, named one ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphA man was detained on Monday for suspiciously loitering outside the American Center here, a police officer said.The man, a resident of North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, is being questioned by officers from the Shakespeare Sarani police ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphTrinamool Congress MLA and former West Bengal minister Jyotipriyo Mallick was allegedly assaulted by a man, who intruded into his residence in Salt Lake area, a senior police officer said.The man was later arrested by police and is being ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphA woman was shot by an assailant in the southern part of the city's Haridevpur area early on Monday, police said.Mousumi Halder (37) was rushed to the nearby MR Bangur Hospital, and her condition is stated to be critical, ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphThe deluge of September 23 may be a distant memory for most Calcuttans but many in College Street are still counting their losses from the havoc caused by the inundation.Two book fairs are now being planned to sell books ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphA fan club brought in Shah Rukh Khan’s 60th birthday on Sunday with a celebration at a member’s salon that boasts a wall dedicated to the superstar.The King’s Club, established in 1995 soon after the release of the blockbuster ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphA man who suspected his wife of having an extramarital affair allegedly hit her with a big stone at his Thakurpukur home on Saturday night. The man went to Thakurpukur police station to surrender himself after the alleged attack. ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphSeveral roads in Salt Lake continue to be in a battered condition, with loose aggregates strewn across stretches and dust filling the air as vehicles pass. A brief drive through parts of Salt Lake on Saturday and Sunday threw ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphThe remnants of Cyclone Montha are bowing out in Bangladesh, and a new system is forming over the Bay, but it is moving towards Myanmar.Calcutta is likely to be partly cloudy but dry for the next few days. The ...
4 November 2025 TelegraphThe authorities of South Calcutta Law College have whitewashed the wall on campus that read “Monojit dada (alluding to Monojit Mishra, the prime accused in the alleged gang rape of a 24-year-old law student on the campus) is in ...
3 November 2025 TelegraphThe jurisdictions of five prominent police stations in the city have changed, police have announced. The jurisdictions of Alipore, Park Street, New Market, Watgunge and Ekbalpore police stations were reorganised through a notification issued by Kolkata Police commissioner Manoj ...
3 November 2025 TelegraphA teenage girl who had gone out for tuition was allegedly gang-raped by three men not far from her home on Saturday. Police said the 14-year-old girl had first met a friend and gone to a park in the ...
3 November 2025 TelegraphEast West Metro should have ferried 7 lakh passengers every day in 2025, according to a prediction made by the authorities. However, in reality, the Green Line has barely over two lakh passengers daily on average.Concerned about not reaching ...
3 November 2025 TelegraphThe Women in Blue kept tightening the stranglehold on the Proteas who succumbed to the pressure.The coveted moment came when Nadine de Klerk was caught by Harmanpreet Kaur off Deepti Sharma’s bowling.“This victory will ignite a nation,” said Ian ...
3 November 2025 TelegraphJewellery adorning the deity at a 90-year-old family Kali temple in Behala’s Sarsuna was allegedly stolen early on Thursday, police said.According to the complaint filed at Sarsuna police station, the stolen jewellery haul included necklaces, bangles and a crown. ...
3 November 2025 TelegraphThe gold robbery in Sinthi on Wednesday evening was an act planned to perfection, following days of intense mapping of the victim’s daily routine and how he usually kept the ignition switch of his two-wheeler “on” before parking it ...
3 November 2025 TelegraphThe family of a 57-year-old businessman, who watched television at home until late on Wednesday and subsequently suffered a stroke the following morning, managed to overcome their shock and sorrow to donate several of his organs.Prithwish Ranjan Gayen, aged ...
3 November 2025 TelegraphThe decomposed body of a man that was found in a manhole off Keshab Chandra Sen Street on Friday morning was sent for forensic examination to find out the possible time of death, police said.Officers have initiated inquiries into ...
3 November 2025 TelegraphThe humble school bag has shed some of its oldest companions. The dictionary, the atlas and, alas, the storybook have quietly disappeared. No one seems to miss them.Schools don’t prescribe them anymore, and children, adept with tablets and smartboards, ...
3 November 2025 TelegraphOn Saturday evening, a forgotten superstar of Bengali theatre was revived. Tara Sundari, an eponymous monodrama featuring Gargee Roychowdhury, premiered to a packed G.D. Birla Sabhaghar. The 118-minute solo performance drew a long round of applause — the kind ...
3 November 2025 TelegraphThe current rainy spell is on its way out, but the Met office has ruled out any significant drop in temperatures in the near future.The remnants of Cyclone Montha had weakened into a low-pressure area, according to a Met ...
3 November 2025 TelegraphThe Women in Blue are chasing glory, but the city’s excitement so far has been tepid.In contrast to the feverish build-up to the Men’s ODI World Cup Final in November 2023 and the T20 World Cup final in June ...
3 November 2025 TelegraphBooth-level officers (BLOs) attending a training session at Nazrul Mancha on Saturday, ahead of the special intensive revision (SIR), raised concerns about intimidation by political leaders and asked representatives from the Election Commission of India about security measures.A schoolteacher ...
3 November 2025 TelegraphAll hoardings put up before Durga Puja must display the name of the puja committees from next year, Calcutta mayor Firhad Hakim said on Friday.This move aims to hold the committees accountable for removing the hoardings on time, as ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphA new Bailey bridge connecting Dakshindari and Salt Lake’s AA Block — which promises to create a new route for vehicles headed to Sector V and EM Bypass from VIP Road — will be ready by the end of ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta University has decided to form a committee that will supervise the university’s preparation to get itself reaccredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). CU vice-chancellor Ashutosh Ghosh on Friday said the committee’s task would be to ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphA signalling glitch disrupted Blue Line Metro services for nearly an hour during the office rush on Friday morning. The problem was detected between Dum Dum and Belgachhia stations just before 8.30am, said an official.A Metro spokesperson attributed the ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphA jewellery workshop employee was allegedly robbed of gold worth more than ₹2 crore and his scooter by two men armed with a gun in Sinthi on Wednesday evening.The alleged robbery took place at 6/J, Raja Apurba Krishna Lane, ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphDevi Shetty’s Narayana Health announced on Friday the acquisition of a hospital chain in the United Kingdom, marking a major international expansion for the Bengaluru-headquartered healthcare group.Narayana Health has acquired 100 per cent of Practice Plus Group Hospitals, taking ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphCalcutta airport’s persistent cleanliness problems need a fundamental overhaul of contract management, focusing on quality outcomes rather than lowest-cost bidding, outgoing director Pravat Ranjan Beuria said on Friday.“I am in favour of improving the system. The system needs to ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphSouth Point School has decided to introduce pre-Nursery from the next academic session, admitting children aged two and above. The move aligns with a growing trend among schools to start education at an earlier age.According to the school’s website, ...
1 November 2025 TelegraphRich or poor, the dead deserve a dignified farewell. The Christian Burial Board has set aside a dedicated area in the Lower Circular Road Cemetery for those who cannot afford the cost of a grave, ensuring that the city’s ...
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